MCAD Teaching Artists' lesson plans and student work created in collaboration with community partners
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Lesson Plan / PreK-Grade4
</Fluxus-Theater > : Fluxus through theatrical performance. Young children perform fluxus art in a theatrical theme as a way to understand performance art and play. Placement: Urban Arts Academy K-2 Afterschool Program with teaching artist Jeralise Tylke.
Pre-K self portraits inspired by Jean-Michel Basquiat. MCAD Teaching Artist Dana Sexton leading the project in La Kong’s Preschool class at Urban Arts Academy.
Product creation for a fictional retail store designed to align with the season, target audience and overall brand identity of the store presented with the student ‘pitch’. Teaching Artist Minor and Entrepreneurial Studies Major working with Sagirah Shahid’s 2nd-4th grade after school programming.
Graphic Design addresses posters for classroom sales in a Social Studies Monetization unit stduents working with MCAD Teaching Artist in Ashley Rudolphs 2nd grade classroom at Whittier International School.
Based on traditional Ojibwe animal paintings discovered in their reading, students create their own artistic renderings of the animals they feel represents them using vibrant colors and abstract shapes to interpret their characteristics. MCAD Teaching Artist Evie Rozendaal working with Ulla Tervo Desnick and her 2nd graders at Expo Elementary School.
Using ancient Japanese marbling Suminagashi techniques, students collaborate to produce ink designs that they will transfer to paper from water and draw comparisons between water treatment/eliminating water pollution and lifting the ink. MCAD Teaching Artist Evie Rozendaal working with Jane Swatosh and 4th graders at Whittier International School.
A Walker Art Center pop up putty molding project engaging memory connecting to the Jason Moran exhibition with MCAD Teaching Artist minor/ Illustration major Betsy Lehr.
Being a Weather Reporter. In this lesson teaching artist Dan Ploof guides students through the visualization of the weather report as they set up background for their weather reporting videos.
Kindergarteners use clay to invent planets using their knowledge and experience on Earth.
A large scale community paper making project investigating papermaking in industrial and traditional settings.
An entry to comics project that introduces narrative, cubism and geometry for first graders.
An collaborative stop motion group animation project enacting the water cycle.
Relief printing and journal making for the Kindergartener. This project engages children in pre-math concepts through active pattern creation and sequential book making techniques
This project offers young students the opportunity to envision a chair or piece of furniture as designers through a hands-on interactive model making process and invent a fictional story about it.
An environment fairytale written by Teaching Artist Nathalie Pedracine was animated by Kenwood 3rd graders in this arts infused language arts lesson.
Doodlebugs practiced their motor skills in this frog puppet project lead by teaching artist Hannah Brown and were introduced to the life cycle of frogs by Silverwood naturalists.
In preparation for World Cultures Day, Jackson Elementary 1st grades students worked with Teaching Artist Brandie Zaspel to create masks inspired by Liberian culture.
Equally visual arts and math, Expo 1st and 2nd graders create Mindcraft type mosaics applying the measuring techniques from math class lead by Teaching Artist Kendra Powers.
Using scraps from the costume production of Out On A Limb Dance Studio’s production of Aladdin , the Jackson Preparatory Magnet students created a community collage inspired by Arabian Mosaics and the play they viewed lead by Teaching Artist Brandie Zaspel.
Second grade student at Sejong Charter Scholo learned impasto painting technique as part of their arts curriculum in preparation for creating a stillife painting. Working from a still life of flowers students will draw and paint from observation with teaching artist Elisa Gomez.
